Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...published war criminal lists. There was bitter derision for Tojo's suicide failure and favorable comment on those officials who gave themselves up. When Tokyo papers (on direction from MacArthur's headquarters) published accounts of atrocities suffered by U.S. prisoners, Japanese asked that they be allowed to arrest, try and punish their own criminals...
When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...
Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...
Elfego decided to become a Socorro County deputy sheriff one afternoon when five drunken cowboys castrated a Mexican while a peace officer stood idly nearby. Elfego believed the law should be as strong as the lawless. One day, after he was made a deputy, he arrested a cowboy who shot his hat off. Eighty enraged ranch hands galloped into the tough town of Upper Frisco to rescue their comrade and avenge the indignity of the arrest. Sheriff Baca locked himself in a mud-and-log hut, kept his six-shooters blazing for 36 hours, pausing only long enough...
...first Germans to reach Prague carried a warrant for Gedye's arrest on a charge of "treason" (for helping Austrian refugees to flee). For ten days he hid in the attic of the British Legation until he could escape across the Polish border. Once away, Gedye was sent to Moscow for the New York Times, did not like it there, was glad when the chance came to help his native England fight for its own freedom -and Austria...